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Books

The
Doctor’s Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Understanding, Treating
and Living With CFIDS

By David S Bell, MD

This book was published in its first edition as The Disease
of a Thousand Names.

Publisher: Perseus Pr
ISBN: 0201407973

$26.40 (inc. GST)
$3.00 postage and handling

Red

By Stephanie McCarthy

“To all those courageous people struggling to win the fight
against CFS, we wish you the very best. From Stephanie and Red”
is the inscription Stephanie wrote in the copy of her book, Red,
which she presented to the ME/CFS Society recently.

Her passion to get the message across to young people, especially
in the mid-teenage bracket, the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an authentic
illness, led her to write this, the sequel to her book “Diary
Z.”

Fifteen-year-old Red lives on the West Coast of South Australia.
Because of his involvement in some extraordinary events during
the year he decides to write a book. Encouraged by his English
teacher, who “couldn’t wait to read it,” he tells of
his adventures and the situations in which he finds himself.

Red’s mate Shep has this CFS thing. Red doesn’t understand why
Shep’s too sick to go to school or footy but volunteers for the
Country Fire Service! His girlfriend explains to him that CFS
stands for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. “Of course,” Red
says, “everyone knows that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a
totally wanky lazy faky bludgy nothing disease.” And he is
quite is disgusted.

Anyway, Shep’s parents, who are both vets, plan to go away for
a week to a conference and ask Red if he would stay with Shep
to care for him. Red thinks the money might just come in handy
– he has his eye on a new wet suit – and so he agrees
to the offer, thinking it would be a breeze...

Red is action-packed, full of adventure, suspense and surprises.
From a too-close-for-comfort encounter with a great white shark,
to... well, that’s for you to discover!

Red, although written in the language of a teenager, is
a gripping book for readers of all ages.